The distilled product of five years of design work — a strategy game set in Classical Greece, launching on Gamefound on 3 November 2026.

The world

Aegeapolis is set in and around the Aegean Sea in the fifth century BC. Aegea takes its name from the sea between mainland Greece and Asia Minor; polis is the ancient Greek word for city, and for the autonomous city-states scattered across that water. The game’s four playable factions are based in Athens, Sparta, Corinth, and Thebes; smaller poleis dot the Aegean to discover, bargain with, and contest.

Two modes in one box

Sandbox opens an Aegean polis world to explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate — through trade, diplomacy, planning, and reading both the board and the players across the table.

Campaign is a story-driven mode carried by the four characters Athene, Leonidas, Sisyphos, and Phix, with scenarios that play in 2v2 buddy format. Both modes share one box.

Material

Coins are central to the table. Eight historical mints — Abydos, Aegina, Argos, Corinth, Megara, Milet, Rhodes, and Thera — are reproduced as the game’s coin designs. In the campaign book, the four characters appear as drawn figures, in echo of Greek black-figure pottery. Phalanxes — each faction’s army units — and their five- and ten-strong formations are wooden cubes in three sizes.

You can find the game’s own site at aegeapolis.com.

A short list of patterns this studio has decided against — written down so backers can hold us to them.

✓ AI-free game components
✓ Real wood, not faux
✓ Published by our own studio
✓ Plain writing, no pitch hype
✓ No early-bird pricing
✓ No Gamefound-exclusive content
✓ No stretch-goal upcharges
✓ No whale tier
✓ No FOMO marketing